Netvibes Developers blog

(See bottom of the post for an update) Netvibes was created as a way to gather all your digital life in one handy place, providing in-house for your most important digital needs: search, e-mail, to-do list, feed-reader, bookmarks & links, weather, calendar… It quickly turned out that our users needed access to more digital content [...]

Super Tuesday is (quite literally) right around the corner, and real-time information is where widgets can shine. Indeed, user androostevens understood the need, and submitted no less than 4 Primaries-related widgets. These widget rely on data from AOL News, which has built a dedicated Elections page. They cleverly mix AOL’s Flash applications with a UWA [...]

The Netvibes Ecosystem has its share of search widgets, mostly because they’re easy to build: make a test request in the original search site, write down the search URL, build it into a widget and make that widget open a new page with the search string neatly placed into the search URL. This is nice, [...]

Most of you have come to Netvibes for the global widgets, the all-in-one start-page with all your everyday services at your fingertips. And that’s cool, but there’s more to the Internet than Yahoo!, Gmail, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube, y’know? You might not be aware of this, but Netvibes is not one start-page, but many start-pages: [...]

There are many applications out there that would be useful to Netvibes users - and UWA users in general, but whose developer chose to use Flash instead of relying on easy-to-parse standards or easy-to-implement Web services. As highlighted in our post about the new Netvibes Ecosystem, logged-in users can now directly submit the URL of [...]

As you might have noticed by now, we like to take advantage of recent submissions to Ecosystem in order to spotlight one particular use of widgets in general, or of UWA in particular. The point being to show the wide array of possibilities that a widget or a Netvibes tab can have. This is especially [...]

These days, thanks to the constant improvement of mapping services, it’s easier than ever to find your way home (or to that faraway party). UWA widgets help you a bit further. See, with mapping web services blossoming and opening up with APIs, our Ecosystem has seen its share of useful widgets making use of these. [...]

The cool thing about seeing the UWA community blossom, is to witness developers’ passions and interestes, which translate into cool, funny, creative or downright necessary widgets. Developers can use the DevNet forums to showcase their widgets, and we’ll now try to give our favorites a little popularity boost on this blog. The latest example of [...]